After spending the late ‘90s and early aughts making art films distinguished by their cruel violence and strange sex, Bruno Dumont ratcheted up his style and evinced the thin line between slapstick comedy and overt tragedy. Unabashedly grotesque and yet near irresistible, Slack Bay is another of Dumont’s attempts to perfect his risible form of nihilism.

With the notable exception of Wayne’s World, skit spin-offs from Saturday Night Live have been major duds.
The same can't be said for their better talents, seen here in stand-up and other, more offbeat circumstances.

The rise and fall of humor magazine National Lampoon and its co-founder Doug Kenney. Based on Josh Karp's book of the same name, A Futile and Stupid Gesture pays homage to the subversive humorists who changed the American comedy landscape.